Time Within a Teacher Residency: A Structural Constraint, Agent, and Tool of Evasion

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Abstract

“We just don’t have enough time.” A statement uttered too often in educational contexts. Too frequently in schools there are a myriad of statements like “time is our enemy,” “do the best you can with the limited time you have.” These entanglements with time flow between the individual, institutional, and structural. This article explores time within third-space working groups embedded within a teacher residency in an urban Southeastern city of the United States. Using critical ethnographic methods and posthumanism, this article explores the question: what role does time play in hybrid teacher residency work? Findings demonstrate how time operates as a structural constraint, as a nonhuman agent, and/or is mobilized to evade nuanced/complex social justice work within the residency.

Author

• Thomas Albright, Georgia State University
  Presenting Author